by Eileen Roden | Aug 7, 2024 | P3G, Governance, PMO
Last week, we had our first Executive Workshop – the opportunity to work with some of our more senior clients to discuss a particular topic. I thought it might be useful to share some of the discussions wider to perhaps give some insights into some of the challenges...
by Eileen Roden | Aug 4, 2022 | Portfolio Management, PMO
A few years ago, I contributed to a report entitled ‘Moving from Portfolio Reporting to Portfolio Management’. The report was written to highlight the fact that having a rolled-up report of all the projects and programmes in an organisation, doesn’t constitute...
by Eileen Roden | Sep 29, 2021 | PMO, P3O
For those of you who have sat any AXELOS practitioner exam, you will recognise the format of the P3O® Practitioner exam. However, for those of you who have only done the AXELOS P3O® Foundation exam, you will find the Practitioner exam quite different. Don’t worry,...
by Eileen Roden | Jan 6, 2021 | PMO Roles, P3O, PMO
Agree, Approve and Authorize At a quick glance, all three words can appear synonymous. If you think about how and when you use each of the terms, you might recognise that you even use them interchangeably. Whilst these may appear to be simple words, how and when we...
by Eileen Roden | Nov 19, 2020 | PMO, Sponsorship, Leadership
A number of years ago I was told the analogy of the chicken and the pig and their input to the full English breakfast. Both were involved – the chicken contributes but the pig is fully committed. I’ll give you a minute to work that through . . . In similar guises, I...
